The week that was

Barnier warns of difficult trade talks after Britain leaves EU

Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, warned that trade talks after Britain’s departure on January 31 may be as difficult as the long-running Brexit negotiations. At the Web Summit in Lisbon, he announced that whatever trade agreement emerged would inevitably hurt British businesses, since they would now be outside the 27-nation bloc. “Britain might want to be able to diverge, to pick ...